Pentecostal Hi-Way Tabernacle

10/11/2026

How Can I Help?
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Oct. 11, 2026

10/11/2026

Jesus Looks for the Lost

Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.Luke 15:6

Oct. 11, 2026

“I’ve been looking for him all my life.” With tears in his eyes, Bill Cordes spoke those words after being reunited with his younger brother, Robert. The men hadn’t seen each other for eighty years after being split up when Robert was just four months old due to a troubled family situation.

10/11/2026

You can begin today clean. All you have to do is ask Him.

10/11/2026

Happy Thanksgiving!🍂🍁🍂✝️

10/11/2026

When you don't know which way to go, trust the One who does.

Father, I confess how quickly I try to solve everything with my own understanding. I am afraid of choosing wrongly, and I want to control what happens next. Please quiet my fear and teach me to entrust both the decision and its outcome to You. Lead me gently, Lord, and give me courage to follow You one step at a time. In Jesus' name, Amen.

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.”- Proverbs 3:5-6

Leaning on our own understanding is not the same as trusting. God does not shame the question; He invites the whole decision, and the outcome, into His hands. He straightens the path as we walk it with Him.

For one minute at dusk, stand at the edge of a porch or stoop with a small brass compass in your open palm. Watch the needle tremble and settle. Breathe in for four counts and out for six. Speak Proverbs 3:5-6 aloud once. Then close your hand around the compass and open it again slowly, as a picture of releasing the decision to God.

What decision are you carrying, and what would it look like to hand God the outcome, not just the choice?



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10/10/2026

"The Good Life"
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Oct. 10, 2026

10/10/2026

When There Are No Words, He Still Hears.

(Published July 1st 2026)

Jesse is at a very sweet age (21 months) where he's learning to talk. I read somewhere that he's learning around 50 new words a day and soaking them up like a sponge.

But, a lot of the time, he is still too little to explain what he wants, or he wants it too much to find the words, and the whole thing just comes pouring out of him instead.

He shouts. He screams. He cries. He points across the room and wails, and I start working through the list.

Are you hungry? Do you want this one? Do you need a drink? Are you tired? Do you need a "duddle?" (his word for a cuddle).

Sometimes I get there. And sometimes I do not.

I run out of guesses. I have offered him everything I can think of, and he is still crying, still pointing, still trying to tell me something I cannot understand, and we both end up worn out by it.

I love him more than anything, but love does not make me a mind reader. There are moments I simply cannot reach what is going on inside him, and it is very frustrating for us both, watching him struggle to be understood and not being able to close the gap.

A lot of us are years past Jesse's age and still end up in exactly the same place.

Some things you go through are too big, or too tangled, or too painful to fit into a sentence. You sit down to pray and nothing comes.

Or the only honest prayer you have is not really words at all, just a lump in your throat, a weight on your chest, the urge to cry or to scream at the situation because that is the only language the pain has left you.

Thankfully, God hears that prayer and understands everything.

Unlike me with Jesse, He never runs out of guesses, because He is not guessing at all.

God's native language was never English. It is love.

He does not need you to phrase it correctly, and He never mishears. He reads the thing underneath the words.

He knows the feeling before you have found a name for it. Where I cannot reach my own son, God reaches all the way into you and understands completely.

Paul said it like this: "the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can't be uttered." Even when your prayer is only a groan, Heaven receives it as a whole sentence.

So if today all you have is a sigh, or tears, or a silence you cannot explain, you have not stopped praying. You are praying in the oldest language there is, and the God who made you understands every word of it.

When there are no words, He still hears. He always understands.

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When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin. John 16:8

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